Meta’s Muse AI Charms can interact with each other
Meta’s Muse AI Charms can interact with each other

Meta’s handheld AI gadget, called the Muse Charm, will be able to recognize and interact with other nearby Charms when it launches later this year. That’s according to a report from Bloomberg, which includes more details about the device that the company teased during its Meta Connect keynote on Wednesday. The Muse Charm houses the […]

Everything is spying on you and there’s no opting out
Everything is spying on you and there’s no opting out

Earlier this month, Apple announced that its new Apple Watches will have the ability to continuously listen to every spoken word they detect and create summaries of whatever’s going on around you. The privacy blowback was immediate and inevitable: Experts warned of the legal risks of using the features, especially in nonpublic spaces and states […]

Meta Connect 2026: The 7 biggest announcements
Meta Connect 2026: The 7 biggest announcements

Meta announced a slate of new wearables during its annual Meta Connect showcase on Wednesday. The star of the event was the new Meta VR Glasses, which pack virtual reality tech into a lightweight smart glasses-style frame with a tethered puck. Meta also announced new pairs of screen-free smart glasses, along with some new AI […]

Muse is coming to Meta smart glasses
Muse is coming to Meta smart glasses

Just a couple of weeks after launching Muse, Meta announced that it’s “working on” bringing the agent to its smart glasses, including the new glasses it unveiled at Meta Connect. Users will be able to activate Muse from their glasses by saying its name and ask it to handle tasks like guiding a workout, logging […]

Meta introduces camera-free AI glasses

Meta says the camera-free glasses will be lighter and have up to 12 hours battery life.

Meta ditches the camera on its newest smart glasses
Meta ditches the camera on its newest smart glasses

Walking around Meta Connect 2026, everyone’s sporting smart glasses in all sorts of shapes, colors, and sizes. It’s a marked difference here, a tech bubble where “pervert glasses” are not a concern. Outside Connect, the public backlash against wearable surveillance tech – a catchall term that encompasses not just smart glasses, but also smartwatches and […]

Meta Connect 2026: The biggest news and announcements
Meta Connect 2026: The biggest news and announcements

It’s about time for Meta Connect, the company’s annual product launch event. This year, given the company’s major focus on AI and wearables like smart glasses, it seems likely that we’ll see updates from CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his team on those categories. The company has been facing significant scrutiny because of how some users […]

Meta Connect 2026 live blog: On the ground at Mark Zuckerberg’s next big product launch
Meta Connect 2026 live blog: On the ground at Mark Zuckerberg’s next big product launch

It’s time once again for Meta’s annual September product launch event, and The Verge is on the ground in Menlo Park to cover the show live. Meta says that today’s keynote by Mark Zuckerberg will be about how “Meta is building a future for everyone” – something he wrote at length about in a recent […]

Microsoft’s new Surface Mouse has haptic feedback and a customizable action button
Microsoft’s new Surface Mouse has haptic feedback and a customizable action button

Microsoft is launching a second generation of its Surface Mouse next month that includes haptic feedback support. The Surface Mouse also has a customizable action button for the first time, which is primarily designed for quick access to Copilot (of course), but can be configured to work with other shortcuts from the Surface app. “Its […]

Microsoft refreshes its smaller Surface Pro and Laptop with Qualcomm’s X2 Plus
Microsoft refreshes its smaller Surface Pro and Laptop with Qualcomm’s X2 Plus

Microsoft is refreshing its Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch devices with Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon X2 Plus chips. The smaller Surface devices retain the same design and hardware features from last year, with faster and more capable chips inside and higher price tags (thanks RAMageddon!). While the 12-inch Surface Pro started at $799.99 last […]